jkovis

Thanks, so I should write a plugin rather than use "Page"

– If I’m understanding your situation correctly then yes. WordPress pages are for managing content that appears on the frontend. To hook into the WordPress admin and interact with a 3rd party API you’ll need to write a plugin or add your code to your theme’s functions.php. I’d suggest taking a look at this MailChimp/WordPress plugin as an example.

You might also want to take a look at integrating with Gravity Forms so you don’t have to do a lot of the form/database handling.

See http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress for how to create an export using phpMyAdmin.

Is there a call to <?php query_posts() ?> in your theme’s header.php, functions.php, or page.php?

http://codex.wordpress.org/Administration_Menus

You shouldn’t need to create new database tables if you use Custom Post Types

You could use get_children for each of the parent posts, something like:

$parent_id = 7;
$child_pages_args = array(
    'post_parent' => $parent_id,
    'post_type'   => 'page',
    'numberposts' => -1,
    'post_status' => 'published'
);
$child_pages = get_children( $child_pages_args );
$child_pages_count = count($child_pages);

You may also want to use a Transient so you’re not querying the database on each page load.

The easiest thing might be to copy the first sentence of the post into the Excerpt field.

The only difference that I can see is that your <div class="clearFooter"></div> is inside the <div id="wrapper"> tag on http://design.enricospada.com/frank/wordpress/ while it’s outside other pages like http://design.enricospada.com/frank/wordpress/frankshome/